During joint House and Senate budget hearings Jan. 22- 25, the heads of various state agencies appeared before committee members to make the case for their budget requests for the remainder of the current fiscal year as well as fiscal year 2009, which begins July 1, 2008. More...
On Thursday and Friday, January 24-25, local, state and federal authorities searched the wooded areas of Towns and Union counties for the body of a missing elderly hiker from North Carolina. Gary Michael Hilton, according to reports, was spotted in the Hiawassee area in October, around the time o... More...
We got down to business under the Gold Dome this week, as legislators from across the state attended the annual budget hearings. In this process, members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees meet to hear from agency heads and others on their budgetary needs and concerns. More...
Narcotics Anonymous Mountain Folks Group meets every Friday night at 8:00 p.m. at New Hope Fellowship Church, 1299 Old Blue Ridge Hwy., next to Byers Well Drilling and on Tuesday Night at 7 p.m. at the New Hope Treatment Facility. All are welcome- don't lose hope because we can help. For informa... More...
The following is the arrest report for the Union County Jail. This report is from the open records for the the period of January 21, 2007 through January 28, 2008. More...
Voting: the Primary Is Not Secondary As we Americans struggle to make our democracy work, we get confused by the byzantine array of primaries and caucuses and polls and straw polls that beset us. One gets a headache trying to keep up with the process. But one thing we must keep firmly in mind is ... More...
Shirley Anne Myers Alferink, 69, of Young Harris, Ga., died Friday, January 11, 2008 at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. Shirley was born Sunday, July 17, 1938 in Campbell County, Ky., to the late James Myers and the late Ann Pabelka Myers Wright. She was of the Methodist Faith and was a member ... More...
Faux pau. That is French for big goof. Mistakes? I have made a few. This last week I faux pau-goofied again. On August 5th, I was asked by a desperate school board to serve as administrator for Mountain Area Christian Academy. That was the same week Buddy and I opened the Ye Old Coin Shop. More...
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Signs, signs. Where are the political signs?